Faculty of Health Sciences
Midwifery
Applications open
Tuition and study format
Academic year: 2026/27
Intakes and application dates
- 2026/2027 Ön BaşvuruApplications openJanuary 1, 2026 — August 31, 2027
Programme information package
The programme's definition and learning outcomes, as the university publishes them in its official information package.
Programme definition
History
Our department was established in 2025 within the Faculty of Health Sciences at Nişantaşı University. The founder of the department is Assoc. Prof. Dr. Fadime Çınar, Vice Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences. The curriculum of our department has been prepared in line with the criteria of national and international accreditation bodies. It is supported by theoretical courses, laboratory practices, and clinical internships. It is planned that our graduates will be able to take part in the healthcare sector after completing their undergraduate education and successfully sustain their careers.
Qualification Awarded
Midwifery
Level of Qualification (Short Cycle , First Cycle , Second Cycle, Third Cycle)
Bachelor's Degree
Specific Admission Requirements
Students who want to enroll in the program must complete the processes determined by OSYM within the framework of the relevant legislation / have passed the exams. A student who has started his/her education in an equivalent program in Turkey or abroad can apply for horizontal transfer. Acceptance of students is examined and evaluated individually, before the semester starts, taking into account the conditions of each student and the degree to which they apply. More detailed information on university admission is available in the Institutional Catalogue.
Specific Arrangements For Recognition Of Prior Learning (Formal, Non-Formal and Informal)
It is made in accordance with the provisions of the Regulation on the Principles of Transfer Between Associate and Undergraduate Degree Programs in Higher Education Institutions, Double Major, Minor and Credit Transfer Between Institutions published in the Official Gazette dated 24/4/2010 and numbered 27561 and the provisions of the Regulation on the Amendment of the Regulation on the Principles of Transfer Between Associate and Undergraduate Degree Programs, Double Major, Minor and Inter-Institutional Credit Transfer in Higher Education Institutions published in the Official Gazette dated 21/12/2019 and numbered 30985 and the principles determined by the Senate. Procedures of vertical transfer students placed in this department by ÖSYM are carried out in accordance with the provisions of the Regulation on the Continuation of Vocational Schools and Open Education Associate Degree Programs Graduates to Undergraduate Education published in the Official Gazette dated 19/2/2002 and numbered 24676 and the provisions of the Regulation on the Amendment of the Regulation on the Continuation of Undergraduate Education of Vocational Schools and Open Education Associate Degree Programs published in the Official Gazette dated 01/04/2016 and numbered 29671 and the principles determined by the Senate. Students who have enrolled in our department while they were students at any higher education institution before, may request exemption for the courses they have taken and succeeded in previous higher education institutions.
Qualification Requirements and Regulations
The Eligibility Requirements and Rules are as described in the 'Graduation Requirements' section.
Profile of The Programme
Vision: The vision of the Midwifery Department of the Faculty of Health Sciences at Istanbul Nişantaşı University is to become a respected educational institution that educates leading midwives who are nationally and internationally preferred; recognized for their scientific productivity, innovative educational approach, high-quality healthcare services, and contribution to society in improving the health of women, mothers, fetuses, newborns, and families. Mission: The mission of the Midwifery Department of the Faculty of Health Sciences at Istanbul Nişantaşı University is, in line with the “People First” approach, to educate professional midwives who can provide safe, high-quality, evidence-based, and woman-centered care for the health needs of women, mothers, fetuses, newborns, families, and society; independently manage normal pregnancy and childbirth; recognize high-risk conditions at an early stage; adhere to ethical principles; possess advanced critical thinking and clinical decision-making skills; integrate scientific research and technological developments into professional practice; and work in accordance with national and international midwifery standards. Program Educational Objectives In line with the knowledge, skills, experiences, and awareness acquired throughout their undergraduate education, graduates of this program are expected to achieve the following qualifications: PEO1.The Midwifery Program aims to educate professional midwives who can provide evidence-based care for the protection, promotion, and maintenance of the health of women, newborns, fetuses, families, and society; who are committed to ethical values; who effectively use analytical thinking and clinical decision-making skills; and who provide safe and high-quality midwifery services. Performance Indicator:The employment rate of graduates in public and private healthcare institutions at primary, secondary, and tertiary levels of healthcare services is expected to exceed 90%. PEO2.The program aims to educate graduates who follow current scientific developments in women’s health, pregnancy, childbirth, the postpartum period, newborn care, and reproductive health; use health technologies effectively; contribute to teamwork; demonstrate developed leadership skills; and sustain their professional development continuously. Performance Indicator:The rate of graduates employed in education, research, management, or leadership-oriented professional roles is expected to exceed 25%. PEO3.The program aims to educate midwives who embrace lifelong learning, participate in scientific research, continuously improve their professional competencies, attend national and international scientific events, and pursue certification and postgraduate education opportunities. Performance Indicator:The rate of graduates participating in postgraduate education, certification programs, scientific events, and professional development activities is expected to exceed 25%. PEO4.The program aims to educate graduates who follow international midwifery standards; provide woman- and family-centered care in different cultural contexts; contribute to the improvement of global maternal and newborn health; actively participate in scientific research; and take part in international projects. Performance Indicator: The rate of graduates participating in international projects, scientific studies, academic collaborations, exchange programs, or global maternal and newborn health practices is expected to exceed 20%.
Occupational Profiles of Graduates With Examples
Istanbul Nişantaşı University Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Midwifery graduates may work in health services aimed at protecting, promoting, and maintaining the health of women, mothers, fetuses, newborns, children, families, and communities. Graduates may be employed in a wide range of institutions and units, including public hospitals, university hospitals, city hospitals, private hospitals, delivery rooms, obstetrics and gynecology wards, neonatal units, pregnancy follow-up clinics, family health centers, community health centers, maternal and child health and family planning centers, reproductive health and infertility centers, private clinics, medical centers, and home healthcare services. Graduates who wish to pursue an academic career may continue their postgraduate education and work as research assistants or academic staff members at universities.
Access to Further Studies
Those who have successfully completed their undergraduate degree can apply to the graduate programs of universities. Each university's application requirements may be different. Candidates who have successfully completed their undergraduate education can enroll in postgraduate programs in their own fields or related fields if they get enough marks from the ALES exam and have sufficient foreign language knowledge.
Examination Regulations, Assessment and Grading
Students who register for the relevant course at the beginning of the term must have attended at least 70% of the theoretical courses and at least 80% of the applied courses in order to enter the final exam. Students are subjected to at least one midterm and final exam for each course. The contribution of the midterm exam to the success grade is 40% (points obtained from measurement tools such as homework, laboratory exam, quiz can also be taken into consideration as midterm grade), and the contribution of the final exam is 60%. All exams are evaluated over 100 points. Students who get one of the letter grades (AA), (BA), (BB), (CB) and (CC) from a course are considered successful in that course. (DC) and (DD) grades are conditionally successful grades. In order for a student to be successful in a course with DC or DD grade, the grade point average of the semester he / she took that course must be at least 2.00. For more detailed information, please check the related course in the Lesson Plan section. See also the relevant regulation: Nişantaşı University Associate Degree and Undergraduate Education and Examination Regulations
Graduation Requirements
To graduate from the Department of Midwifery at Istanbul Nişantaşı University, Faculty of Health Sciences, students are required to successfully complete all courses in the program, corresponding to a total of 240 ECTS credits, and achieve a minimum cumulative grade point average of 2.00 out of 4.00. In addition, in order to qualify for graduation, students must successfully complete the following clinical practice requirements related to pregnancy, childbirth, the postpartum period, newborn care, women’s health, and the management of high-risk conditions within the scope of the practical competencies of midwifery education: * Provide counseling to pregnant women, including at least 100 antenatal examinations; * Monitor and provide care for at least 40 pregnant women throughout their pregnancies; * Personally conduct at least 40 normal births. If this number cannot be achieved due to an insufficient number of women giving birth, the requirement may be reduced to 30 births, provided that the student actively assists in at least 20 additional births; * Actively participate in the management of a breech birth. If a breech birth is not available in the clinical setting, this competency should be practiced through simulation; * Acquire competency in performing episiotomy and episiotomy repair. This requirement includes theoretical instruction, clinical practice, and, when necessary, simulation-based suturing practice. Such practice includes suturing following an episiotomy or repairing simple perineal tears; * Monitor and provide care for at least 40 women at risk during pregnancy, childbirth, or the postpartum period; * Monitor, examine, and provide care for at least 100 postpartum women and healthy newborns; * Participate in the observation and care of newborns requiring special care, including premature, post-term, low-birth-weight, or ill infants; * Take part in the care of women with gynecological and obstetric pathologies; * Participate in the theoretical and clinical aspects of the medical and surgical care of women.
Mode of Study (Full-Time, Part-Time, E-Learning )
Tam Zamanlı
Address, Programme Director or Equivalent
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ebru Sen (Head of Midwifery Department) Address: Istanbul Nişantaşı University, Faculty of Health Sciences, Neotech Campus, Maslak Mahallesi, Taşyoncası Sokak, No:1V and No:1Y, Office 102, 34398 Sarıyer/İstanbul Contact details: ebru.sen@nisantasi.edu.tr
Facilities
There are Nursing-Midwifery, Microbiology, Medical Biology and Genetics, Pharmacology, Anatomy and Physiology, Histology and Pathology, Operating Room, Basic Skills laboratories for the applied courses of the Faculty of Health Sciences Midwifery Department. Clinical field applications are carried out in state and private hospitals contracted by our university. There are 6 computer laboratories with a capacity of 30 students, reading and study halls, and a library with a large area, which are in common use of our university, are used by our students for their studies outside the course periods.
Programme outcomes
- Uses fundamental theoretical knowledge specific to the discipline of midwifery by integrating it with current literature and scientific evidence, and applies this knowledge at a level that enables independent decision-making during pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period.
- Develops a holistic and evidence-based approach to the care of women, newborns, children, and families while considering cultural differences.
- Plans and implements monitoring activities aimed at protecting, maintaining, and promoting health; evaluates their outcomes and carries out appropriate interventions.
- Ensures a safe environment during normal and high-risk pregnancy, labour, childbirth, and postpartum processes, and assumes responsibility for management in emergencies through effective clinical decision-making skills.
- Provides qualified care and counseling services that support the adaptation process of the woman, newborn, and family during the postpartum period.
- Conducts professional practices in accordance with ethical principles, legal regulations, legislation, and professional standards, and assumes responsibility with awareness of their social implications.
- Actively participates in research, education, and projects specific to the field of midwifery; analyzes the data obtained and translates it into practice.
- Communicates effectively with the healthcare team and other disciplines; assumes the role of a collaborative team member who contributes to improving patient safety and quality of care.
- Follows developments in science, technology, and health policy, and continuously updates professional knowledge and skills through a lifelong learning approach.
- Uses Turkish oral and written communication skills effectively and has foreign language proficiency at a level sufficient to follow current literature and communicate professionally.
Programme outcomes and the Turkish Qualifications Framework
Each line is an item of the Turkish Qualifications Framework; the numbers beside it are the programme outcomes that meet it.
KNOWLEDGE
- 1
Possess advanced level theoretical and practical knowledge supported by textbooks with updated information, practice equipments and other resources
Programme outcomes1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5 · 6 · 7 · 9
SKILLS
- 1
Use of advanced theoretical and practical knowledge within the field
Programme outcomes1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5 · 7 · 8 · 9 - 2
Interpret and evaluate data, define and analyze problems, develop solutions based on research and proofs by using acquired advanced knowledge and skills within the field
Programme outcomes1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5 · 6 · 7 · 8 · 9 · 10
COMPETENCES ( Competence to Work Independently and Take Responsibility )
- 1
Conduct studies at an advanced level in the field independently
Programme outcomes1 · 3 · 4 · 5 · 6 · 7 · 8 - 2
Take responsibility both as a team member and individually in order to solve unexpected complex problems faced within the implementations in the field
Programme outcomes3 · 4 · 6 · 7 · 8 · 9 - 3
Planning and managing activities towards the development of subordinates in the framework of a project
Programme outcomes4 · 6 · 7 · 8
COMPETENCES ( Learning Competence )
- 1
Evaluate the knowledge and skills acquired at an advanced level in the field with a critical approach
Programme outcomes1 · 7 · 9 · 10 - 2
Determine learning needs and direct the learning
Programme outcomes1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5 · 6 · 7 · 8 · 9 · 10 - 3
Develop positive attitude towards lifelong learning
Programme outcomes7 · 9 · 10
COMPETENCES ( Communication and Social Competence )
- 1
Inform people and institutions, transfer ideas and solution proposals to problems in written and orally on issues in the field
Programme outcomes2 · 4 · 5 · 7 · 8 · 10 - 2
Share the ideas and solution proposals to problems on issues in the field with professionals and non-professionals by the support of qualitative and quantitative data
Programme outcomes2 · 4 · 5 · 8 · 10 - 3
Organize and implement project and activities for social environment with a sense of social responsibility
Programme outcomes2 · 3 · 5 · 6 · 7 · 8 · 9 · 10 - 4
Monitor the developments in the field and communicate with peers by using a foreign language at least at a level of European Language Portfolio B1 General Level
Programme outcomes6 · 8 · 10 - 5
Use informatics and communication technologies with at least a minimum level of European Computer Driving License Advanced Level software knowledge
Programme outcomes6 · 9 · 10
COMPETENCES ( Field Specific Competence )
- 1
Act in accordance with social, scientific, cultural and ethic values on the stages of gathering, implementation and release of the results of data related to the field
Programme outcomes1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5 · 6 · 7 · 8 · 9 - 2
Possess sufficient consciousness about the issues of universality of social rights, social justice, quality, cultural values and also, environmental protection, worker's health and security
Programme outcomes2 · 3 · 4 · 5 · 6 · 7 · 8 · 9 · 10